LAN Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Local Area Network (LAN)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring LAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 18 29
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 +5
Contract jobs citing LAN 4 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.87% 3.97% 0.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.00% 17.86% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £415 £360 -
25th Percentile £456 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £430 £525
Median % change year-on-year +23.26% -18.10% -
75th Percentile £535 £445 £538
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £530 £430 £525
% change year-on-year +23.26% -18.10% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.12 - -
Median hourly rate £17.39 - -
75th Percentile £17.65 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £17.39 £30.00 -
% change year-on-year -42.05% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridge

LAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 25 28 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 11.68% 22.22% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 21 15
10th Percentile £84 £250 £192
25th Percentile £431 £415 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £300
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +66.67% -34.78%
75th Percentile £536 £550 £475
90th Percentile £551 £700 £538
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £495 £475 £388
% change year-on-year +4.21% +22.58% -18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £23.79 - -
25th Percentile £33.78 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £52.44 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £72.85 - £57.50
90th Percentile £83.89 - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £18.36 £15.14 £16.30
% change year-on-year +21.28% -7.12% +5.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

LAN job vacancy trend in Cambridge

LAN
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing LAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing LAN

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing LAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing LAN

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 2 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) IT Technician
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) F5
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft